Thread: TODO/exotic features/sql*net

Regarding this item in the TODO:
   SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database   to clients

I recently had (an unrelated) reason to look into the SQL*Net protocol
and discovered that no documentation for it is publicly available, and
reverse-engineering it is (supposedly) a violation of the Oracle user
agreement. People have wanted it for years, but Oracle (for whatever
reason) thinks it's a secret worth guarding closely.

I've discussed this item with various people, so I thought I'd mention
this for the sake of the archives.

(IMO, the TODO item should be dropped.)

-- ams, who is eternally grateful for protocol.html

Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Abhijit Menon-Sen:
> Regarding this item in the TODO:
>
>     SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
>     to clients

> (IMO, the TODO item should be dropped.)

Yeah, if at all, this should be an external proxy server.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Abhijit Menon-Sen:
> > Regarding this item in the TODO:
> >
> >     SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
> >     to clients
> 
> > (IMO, the TODO item should be dropped.)
> 
> Yeah, if at all, this should be an external proxy server.

Removed from TODO.  Thanks.

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